Mastectomy With or Without Reconstruction

Care After

Please read the instructions outlined below and refer to this sheet in the next few weeks. These discharge instructions provide you with general information on caring for yourself after you leave the hospital. Your caregiver may also give you specific instructions. While your treatment has been planned according to the most current medical practices available, unavoidable complications occasionally occur. If you have any problems or questions after discharge, please call your caregiver.

POST-OPERATIVE EXERCISES

Lie in bed with your arm at your side. Raise your arm straight up and back, as if reaching for the headboard.

Lying in bed, clasp your hands behind your head and push your elbows into the mattress.

Raise your shoulders and rotate them forward, down, and back in a circular motion to loosen your chest, shoulder, and upper back muscles.